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Speaker 1: This is breaking new use from Bemberg.

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Speaker 2: Hunter Biden has been convicted of gun charges by a

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Speaker 2: jury in the Delaware trial. The jury took three hours

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Speaker 2: to reach the verdict against the President's son, Junius. Now

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Speaker 2: is June Grasso, Bloomberg's legal analyst, June, what do you

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Speaker 2: make of this ruling today?

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Speaker 1: Well, I'm surprised he came in so fast, But there

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Speaker 1: was a lot of evidence that the prosecution presented that

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Speaker 1: Hunter Biden was addicted to drugs around the time at

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Speaker 1: least that he filled out that form. The only hope

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Speaker 1: I think that the defense had was jury nullification, the

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Speaker 1: jury saying that, you know, there are a lot of

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Speaker 1: jurors about four I think it is, who have family

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Speaker 1: members who are addicted, and they heard for a week

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Speaker 1: prosecution had a mountain of evidence. What are next steps here?

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Speaker 1: I guess sentencing, sentencing, There'll be a probation report, sentencing.

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Speaker 1: Then there are some very strong appellate issues because the

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Speaker 1: Fifth Circuit, which is a conservative circuit, since the Supreme

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Speaker 1: Court's landmark decision in the New York gun case, has

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Speaker 3: Do we know what the timetable is for sentencing?

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Speaker 1: No, the judge will announce the sentencing timetable. It depends.

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Speaker 1: The judge usually when he takes the or she this

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Speaker 1: But again, you know, I'm not sure what's going to

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Speaker 2: Or two.

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Speaker 1: I mean, this is a this is a special council,

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Speaker 1: And what happened was he was investigating this for quite

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Speaker 1: But it's all about a special counsel who has been

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Speaker 3: Do you expect that the Biden administration would make any

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Speaker 1: The President has already said that he will not He

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Speaker 1: So I don't know if you're gonna hear anything more

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Speaker 2: All right, Joe, to stay right there. For political reaction,

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Speaker 2: we can bring in Jeannie Shane Zeno, Bloomer Politics contributor

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Speaker 2: of the Presidency and Congress. Jennie, thanks so much for

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Speaker 4: Well, you know, the easy answer is, we really don't know,

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Speaker 1: So that is one thing. But we have seen some

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Speaker 4: For instance, Emerson did a poll and they found similar

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Speaker 4: to the reaction to Trump's conviction that about six or

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Speaker 4: about eleven percent of those were Democrats. And in an

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Speaker 4: as June knows, Hunter Biden is facing other charges this fall,

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Speaker 4: And of course there's a very personal impact on the

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Speaker 4: all of those are real repercussions.

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Speaker 3: Here all right.

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Speaker 2: Also on right now, I want to bring in Joe Matthew,

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Speaker 2: co host a Balance of Power from Washington, DC. Joe,

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Speaker 2: What's the feeling in Washington.

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Speaker 5: Well, it depends who you ask, just like anything else.

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Speaker 5: that brings you to understand the what they like to

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Speaker 5: How many people have been tried and convicted on these

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Speaker 5: crimes before. But look, you know, it's just another brick

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Speaker 5: If you were already upset with Joe Biden, then this

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Speaker 3: I want to bring June Grasso back into this conversation.

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Speaker 3: What other potential legal issues might Hunter be facing if

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Speaker 1: Well, he's facing a trial in California over his taxes

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Speaker 1: and what he filed on his taxes. That's considered a

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Speaker 1: a drug addict, I would say allegedly, But now I

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Speaker 2: Jennie, how do you think the Biden administration and the

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Speaker 4: I think they will continue to say that this is

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Speaker 3: Joe Matthew, Let's bring you back into this conversation because

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Speaker 3: when you have an instance here with what's happening with

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Speaker 3: then Juxta positioned that against what Trump when he was

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Speaker 5: I figured we are repeatedly and uncharted waters here, and

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Speaker 5: I would look back to what June was pointing to.

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Speaker 1: There's going to be another trial.

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Speaker 5: This is going to be something that involves a subject

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Speaker 5: So I would point you to the fall, and I

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Speaker 2: So June, I mean, I know we're kind of an

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Speaker 4: Well?

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Speaker 1: As Genie said, twenty five years is a possible sentence,

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Speaker 1: but I can't imagine that the judge would sentenced him

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Speaker 1: to that. There's going to be a pre sentence report.

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Speaker 1: Of course. The pre sentence report will show that he's

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Speaker 1: still facing another trial, and that part of the pre

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Speaker 1: sentence report is whether you're addicted to drugs or you

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Speaker 1: have any physical limitations. So it's hard for me to

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Speaker 1: say to guess what the what the judge will do here.

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Speaker 1: I mean, she knows all the facts in the case.

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Speaker 1: She knows that there was a deal that collapsed, and

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Speaker 1: so you know, it's just hard to just say, I

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Speaker 3: What this judge will do Genie when it comes to

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Speaker 3: because you had mentioned pulling before, obviously there's been a

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Speaker 3: delayed in some ways. How does this potentially complicate some

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Speaker 4: Yeah, it's a great question, because this is very complicated.

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Speaker 4: You're asking people what they may do in November if

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Speaker 4: hard to know if people will, to Joe's point, remember

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Speaker 4: much more damaging if it goes forward in California would

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Speaker 4: potentially make the numbers we're seeing worse. But what we've

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Speaker 4: Democrats say they will not vote for Joe Biden as

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Speaker 4: could take that to the polls as they will, but

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Speaker 4: they haven't been quite.

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Speaker 1: As tough Joe.

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Speaker 2: Is this the new normal in Washington, DC? Where past

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Speaker 3: And is this the new normal?

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Speaker 1: It feels like it.

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Speaker 5: I thought impeachment was the new normal, but I guess

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Speaker 5: we're just doing this in criminal court now. I think

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Speaker 5: you just have to think about it, though, and say, like,

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Speaker 5: which battle are we talking about? We keep focusing on

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Speaker 5: November here for good reason. We're in the throes of

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Speaker 5: an historic election cycle. But let's talk about the way

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Speaker 5: the campaigns might hear who won the day. Donald Trump

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Speaker 5: probably did, because otherwise we'd be talking about his first

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Speaker 1: Pro bation officer yesterday. He had to sit for that virtual.

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Speaker 5: Interview for half an hour, and it will not really

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Speaker 5: be talked about now because of Joe Biden's son. But

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Speaker 5: when you talk about who's going to win the month

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Speaker 5: of other things here, including Donald Trump's own sentencing, the

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Speaker 5: never mind the conventions that are going to follow it.

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Speaker 5: So we do want to take it one step at

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Speaker 5: little bit careful with this one because of the personal

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